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Michael J. Jercinovic is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant number of publications in the field.

The main subfields of study covered in their work include:

  • Geophysics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Geochemistry and Petrology

In terms of research topics, their publications address:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Recent papers authored by or relating to Michael J. Jercinovic include:

  • "Trace-element segregation to dislocation loops in experimentally heated zircon," 2021, American Mineralogist
  • "A modern pulse of ultrafast exhumation and diachronous crustal melting in the Nanga Parbat Massif," 2022, Science Advances
  • "TS-Mnz - A new monazite age reference material for U-Th-Pb microanalysis," 2021, Chemical Geology
  • "U-Th-PbTOTAL dating of REE-phosphate by electron microprobe: Review and progress," 2020, IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering
  • "Monazite as a monitor of shear strain in orogenic crust," 2022, Journal of Structural Geology

Frequent co-authors in their research publications include:

  • Michael L. Williams
  • Ian Hillenbrand
  • Kaitlyn Suarez
  • Daniel J. Tjapkes
  • Amy K. Gilmer

Publications by Michael J. Jercinovic have appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Metamorphic Geology
  • American Mineralogist
  • Meteoritics and Planetary Science
  • Precambrian Research

Best Publications

  • Microprobe Monazite Geochronology: Understanding Geologic Processes by Integrating Composition and Chronology

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic;Callum J. Hetherington

  • Age mapping and dating of monazite on the electron microprobe: Deconvoluting multistage tectonic histories

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael P. Terry

  • Resetting monazite ages during fluid-related alteration

    M.L. Williams;M.J. Jercinovic;D.E. Harlov;B. Budzyń

  • Evidence of rainfall variations in Southern Brazil from trace element ratios (Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca) in a Late Pleistocene stalagmite

    Francisco W. Cruz;Stephen J. Burns;Michael Jercinovic;Ivo Karmann

  • Microprobe monazite geochronology: putting absolute time into microstructural analysis

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Analytical perils (and progress) in electron microprobe trace element analysis applied to geochronology: Background acquisition, interferences, and beam irradiation effects

    Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael L. Williams

  • Monazite geochronology of UHP and HP metamorphism, deformation, and exhumation, Nordøyane, Western Gneiss Region, Norway

    Michael P. Terry;Peter Robinson;Michael A. Hamilton;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Format and philosophy for collecting, compiling, and reporting microprobe monazite ages

    M. Williams;M. Jercinovic;Philippe Goncalves;K. Mahan

  • Dating metamorphic reactions and fluid flow: application to exhumation of high-P granulites in a crustal-scale shear zone, western Canadian Shield

    K. Mahan;Philippe Goncalves;M. Williams;M. Jercinovic

  • Altered basaltic glass: A terrestrial analog to the soil of Mars

    Carlton C. Allen;James L. Gooding;Michael Jercinovic;Klaus Keil

  • Experimental determination of stability relations between monazite, fluorapatite, allanite, and REE-epidote as a function of pressure, temperature, and fluid composition

    Bartosz Budzyń;Daniel E. Harlov;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • In-situ trace element analysis of monazite and other fine-grained accessory minerals by EPMA

    Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael L. Williams;Edward D. Lane

  • High-resolution dating of granite petrogenesis and deformation in a lower crustal shear zone: Athabasca granulite terrane, Western Canadian Shield

    Gregory Dumond;Noah McLean;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Alteration of basalt glasses: implications for modelling the long-term stability of nuclear waste glasses

    W. Lutze;G. Malow;R. C. Ewing;M. J. Jercinovic

  • Electron-microprobe monazite dating of ca. 1.71–1.63 Ga and ca. 1.45–1.38 Ga deformation in the Homestake shear zone, Colorado: Origin and early evolution of a persistent intracontinental tectonic zone

    Colin A. Shaw;Karl E. Karlstrom;Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic

  • Understanding geologic processes with xenotime: Composition, chronology, and a protocol for electron probe microanalysis

    Callum J. Hetherington;Michael J. Jercinovic;Michael L. Williams;Kevin Mahan

  • Monazite as a monitor of melting, garnet growth and feldspar recrystallization in continental lower crust

    G. Dumond;P. Goncalves;M. L. Williams;M. J. Jercinovic

  • Effect of fine-scale microstructures in titanohematite on the acquisition and stability of natural remanent magnetization in granulite facies metamorphic rocks, southwest Sweden: implications for crustal magnetism

    Suzanne A. McEnroe;Richard J. Harrison;Peter Robinson;Ute Golla

  • Timing of anatexis and melt crystallization in the Socorro-Guaxupe Nappe, SE Brazil: Insights from trace element composition of zircon, monazite and garnet coupled to U-Pb geochronology

    B.C. Rocha;B.C. Rocha;R. Moraes;A. Möller;C.R. Cioffi;C.R. Cioffi

  • Timing of anatexis in metapelites from the Adirondack lowlands and southern highlands: A manifestation of the Shawinigan orogeny and subsequent anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-granite magmatism

    Matthew J. Heumann;M.E. Bickford;Barbara M. Hill;James M. McLelland

  • Geochronology: Understanding Geologic Processes by Integrating Composition and Chronology

    Michael L. Williams;Michael J. Jercinovic;Callum J. Hetherington

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodney C. Ewing
Rodney C. Ewing Stanford University
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil University of Hawaii at Manoa
Cyrena Anne Goodrich
Cyrena Anne Goodrich Planetary Science Institute
Kip V. Hodges
Kip V. Hodges Arizona State University
Michael A. Hamilton
Michael A. Hamilton University of Toronto
James L. Crowley
James L. Crowley Boise State University
Daniel E. Harlov
Daniel E. Harlov Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Robert Frei
Robert Frei University of Copenhagen
Mathias Vuille
Mathias Vuille University at Albany, State University of New York

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